Complexity as the Experience of Organizing

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1. Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life

   Working Live

   Edited by Patricia Shaw, Ralph Stacey

   Series: Complexity as the Experience of Organizing

   The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in...

   Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge
2. Complexity and the Experience of Managing in Public Sector Organizations

   Edited by Ralph Stacey, Douglas Griffin

   Series: Complexity as the Experience of Organizing

   A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which organizations are...

   Published October 19th 2005 by Routledge
3. Complexity and the Experience of Leading Organizations

   Edited by Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey

   Series: Complexity as the Experience of Organizing

   The contributors to this book are leaders, consultants or managers in organizations who provide narrative accounts of their actual work and daily experience. They explore how the perspective of complex responsive processes assists them to make sense of their experience and so to develop their...

   Published June 15th 2005 by Routledge
4. A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations

   Taking Experience Seriously

   Edited by Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey

   Series: Complexity as the Experience of Organizing

   Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations...

   Published June 15th 2005 by Routledge
5. Experiencing Emergence in Organizations

   Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Patterns

   Edited by Ralph Stacey

   Series: Complexity as the Experience of Organizing

   Examining the experiences of organizational practitioners, this informative book features contributions from experienced leaders, consultants and managers in various organizations, and narrative accounts of the contributors work address key topical questions. Rather than offering descriptions...

   Published June 15th 2005 by Routledge